At 46 years old, he became the third-youngest president of the United States and the first president to be born in the Baby Boomer generation.Ĭlinton presided over the longest period of peacetime economic expansion in American history.

Bush and independent businessman Ross Perot. Clinton was elected president in the 1992 presidential election, defeating incumbent Republican president George H.

As governor, he overhauled the state's education system and served as chairman of the National Governors Association. After graduating from law school, Clinton returned to Arkansas and won election as state attorney general, followed by two non-consecutive tenures as Arkansas governor. He met Hillary Rodham at Yale they married in 1975. He received a Rhodes Scholarship to study at University College, Oxford, and later graduated from Yale Law School. senator from New York from 2001 to 2009, secretary of state from 2009 to 2013 and the Democratic nominee for president in 2016.Ĭlinton was born and raised in Arkansas and attended Georgetown University. He is the husband of Hillary Clinton, who was a U.S. Clinton, whose policies reflected a centrist ' Third Way' political philosophy, became known as a New Democrat. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and again from 1983 to 1992. William Jefferson Clinton ( né Blythe III born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001.

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